The public city life surrounding the site competes directly with the privacy of a typical bathing experience. And yet, cultural and personal bathing experiences are framed by dichotomous sensations on the body.

The new Copenhagen bathhouse is a mutation. It is Turkish, Hungarian, Finnish, Danish, American, and something else all together. It has moments to be alone or together, to be hot or cold, to be shrouded in darkness or to bask in the light.